That's what kids do. And it's also why fogies should never try to "talk hip" with the kids. We're always out of date. (We should also never talk about the music or movies of our childhood. Risky Business and REM are Bogart and Sinatra to them.)
I bet there's a small, yet fun, opportunity to create a service that will predict new slang words based on analysis of twitter and urban dictionary. I wonder if anyone would pay for that?
That's so jar. No really, I had a friend who tried to make "jar" the new "cool". It didn't catch on. But you're probably right. I could see a market for the notoriety, or at least self-satisfaction, of being the one who coined a popular term or phrase.
I only became aware of this word just now. I'm glad I wasn't aware of it before. I am also hopeful that the headline is accurate and that it is, in fact, dead.
The intro to this article reminds me of the GrubHub/Seamless ads that have been on New York Subways for the last 6 months. The meme-filled slogans were bad when they went up (Especially the doge saying "Very takeout! Such convenience!"), but they got more obnoxious and out of touch with each passing month.
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[ 1.4 ms ] story [ 33.4 ms ] threadI bet there's a small, yet fun, opportunity to create a service that will predict new slang words based on analysis of twitter and urban dictionary. I wonder if anyone would pay for that?
To claim its dead implies it was once alive.
This may as well be an article on "plokithorpf"
Apparently, it's been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Some other up-and-coming phrases according to this Guardian opinion piece are:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/28/young-p...